Thanks for your prompt reply. Do you know of any way to localize the
bootstrapper such that the license agreement and other UI dialogs are
localized as well?  Might there be a way to send a transform to the
bootstrapper using msiexec?


David Watson-3 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>       You would have to write a small app that allows your user to
> select a language then spawns msiexec with the correct transform.
> 
> You could then call this app from your bootstrapper setup.exe, just
> change the @ApplicationFile attribute to the name of your language
> selection application in the GenerateBootstrapper element in your
> msbuild project.
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nivlag [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 12 August 2009 17:39
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Distributing multi-language installer
> 
> 
> I have gotten transforms to work when executing the .msi files by
> themselves (which do not install the prerequisites - SQL, Framework,
> Windows Installer), but I have yet to figure out a way to execute the
> bootstrapper setup.exe with a tranform specified such that the after it
> is run, it will execute the setup.msi with the proper transform
> passed/applied.
> 
> I can execute the following for the MSI using this command and the text
> displays in german:
> msiexec /i setup.msi TRANSFORMS=de-de.mst
> 
> But I would like to be able to execute the setup.exe (so prereqs are
> installed), and after that is complete, the setup.msi is executed with
> the Transform parameter specified.
> 
> msiexec /i setup.exe TRANSFORMS=de-de.mst
> 
> Is something like this even possible for executing an exe bootstrapper
> using msiexec?
> 
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